Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope that they might acquire a democratic outlook," the Swedish government has been distributing copies of our Stockholm Edition regularly to the quislings of Norway and Denmark interned at Kalmar Prison...
Without much hope of success, defense counsel said they would appeal to a higher court, and, if necessary, to the House of Lords. William Joyce was whisked away to await the noose at the famous Hammersmith prison, Wormwood Scrubs...
...been going on ever since: when a general finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
...dark womb We did not know our mother's face; From the prison of her flesh we have come Into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison Of this earth...
Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss in the hot mazes, lost, Among the bright stars On this most weary unbright cinder, lost ! Remembering speechlessly We seek the great forgotten language, The lost lane-end into heaven, A stone, a leaf, an unfound door...